Why is it that love/lust makes everything just a little bit more interesting?

I can fully appreciate the fact that sex sells. Of course it does. I just find it funny that this love/lust thing that “Ed” and Jannet have going on is so blatantly obvious, and that Paul is so oblivious to it. Of course he’s oblivious to it, they always are… I have to agree with Robyn, there is “eye sex” going on like there is no tomorrow. But I don’t think that all of this love interest stuff is out of place. Yes, in the book it is debateable about whether or not Ned truely loves anyone (although I do believe that he feels genuine emotion for Paul… but that is another blog entirely) I think that comes from the fact that we, as I have said before, are not invited in. We’ve no idea what Ned actually feels. Maybe he does really love Jannet. I mean, after all, they are going away together. Wether or not that is love or just plain old lust, there is something there. But back to my original point: the love interest is not entirely out of place. It’s there in the book. But it had to be there times ten in the movie for the movie to do well at all. I defy anyone to bring to my attention a movie that does NOT involve love, sex, lust, or any combination of the three.

What all this love/eye sex/lust makes me think about is the end that is to come. If “Ed” and Jannet still run off together in the end (I’m holding off saying that they will, simply becuase this is an adaptation and for all we know Jannet could end up with Paul if the film-makers felt it would work out better for them) then it be a much more devistating blow to Paul than in the book. In the film they are going to be married. She’s wearing the ring, although they aren’t saying anything “until after the election.” If “Ed” runs off with his best friend’s girl now, it really will be a much bigger slap in the face. I also think it makes Paul look that much more pathetic, which is something I think the film-makers are really going for (that, perhaps is a thought for another blog).